Basic concepts of structural analysis /
Fred W. Beaufait
- New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, c1977
- xii, 585 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Aspects of structural behavior -- 2. The idealized model -- 3. Support reactions -- 4. Internal actions in statically determinate trusses -- 5. Internal actions in statically determinate beams and frames -- 6. displacement of planar structures - geometry methods -- 7. Displacement of structures- method of virtual work -- 8. The flexibility method of analysis -- 9. The stiffness method of analysis.
This text has been designed as a teaching tool to be used in a first course, or more likely, in a two-course sequence in structural analysis.